Rollie Pemberton, better known by his musical moniker Cadence Weapon, played a show during Canadian Music Fest, which was reviewed by music Web site ChartAttack, who dutifully published a report card summary of the show. After that, everything went wrong. Here’s how the drama played out on Twitter:
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Six Ontario delicacies being served at the Olympics Pavilion
Peanut brittle from Sudbury's Sinfully Deelicious (Photo via sinfullydeelicious.com)
It’s no secret that corporate sponsorship is one of the most competitive sports at the Games, but a few independent brewers, bakers and farmers made the cut at the Ontario House in the Olympics Pavilion. Alongside the Coke, Minute Maid and Timothy’s coffee, there’s enough Ontario nosh to satisfy any locavore.
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Based in eastern Ontario, Beau’s is more familiar to residents of Ottawa and Kingston—that is, until the family brewery made it into Ontario House. Its Lug Tread Ale, a lager-ale mix, is being served on tap and in a beer–and–Balderson cheddar soup.
Toronto’s supply of Olympic red mittens is almost sold out
The now iconic red mittens are so popular they're selling on eBay (Photo by Duncan Rawlinson)
Both the Yonge and Queen and Yonge and Bloor locations of The Bay are down to the dregs of Vancouver Olympics swag: a few baseball caps, generic Canada T-shirts and pricey sweaters. Not surprisingly, the most popular item of Olympics garb—those cutesy red mittens—is the cheapest, and by December, the first shipment of a million pairs of the $10 mitts, dubbed the it souvenir of the Games, had sold out.
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Digital gastronomy: the latest blog-fuelled food theory “prints” meals out of flavoured goop
The food printer: ASCII seems like a distant memory (Photo courtesy of MIT)
Hungry nerds are rejoicing over the invention of two graduate students at MIT: a three-dimensional food printer. This strange next step in food technology, dubbed Cornucopia, resembles a mutant toaster oven that, in theory, mixes up liquid flavours in canisters, heats or cools the mixture, then “extrudes” the ordered dish at the press of a button. Its inventors extol such virtues as “ultimate control” over a dish’s origin, yet something tells us 100-mile dieters won’t trust goop from a canister.
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